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1380 - Transport and Infrastructure - OPAL FARES

Mookhey, Daniel to the Minister for Resources, Minister for Energy and Utilities, Minister for Arts, Vice-President of the Executive Council representing the Minister for Transport and Infrastructure
  1. Will the Government make changes to Opal Fares in 2017? If so, when?
  2. Will the Government increase the Average Adult weekly fare by 13 per cent as recommended by IPART?
  3. Will the Government increase the Adult train Opal fares as recommended in table 1.1 of the May 2016 IPART report "More efficient, more integrated Opal fares"?
  4. Will the Government increase the Adult bus Opal fares as recommended in table 1.3 of the May 2016 IPART report "More efficient, more integrated Opal fares"?
  5. Will the Government increase the Opal fares as recommended by IPART?
  6. Will the Government increase the Gold Opal daily cap?
  7. Will the Government increase the Gold Opal daily cap to $3.80 from July 2017?
  8. Will the Government increase the Gold Opal daily cap to $4 from July 2018?
  9. Will the Government increase the Adult Opal weekday cap?
  10. Will the Government increase the Adult Opal weekday cap from $15 to $18 from July 2017?
  11. Will the Government increase the Adult Opal weekday cap to $20 by 2018-19?
  12. Will the Government increase the Adult Opal weekly cap?
  13. Will the Government increase the Adult Opal weekly cap from $60 to $64 in 2016-17?
  14. Will the Government increase the Adult Opal weekday cap to $20 by 2018-19?
Answer -

I am advised:

As you would be aware, during the 16 years that Labor were in Government, fares went up 87 per cent. Since Opal's introduction in 2012, Opal fares have not, on average, risen above CPI.

Opal card fares have not increased on trains and ferries since January 2015 and on buses and light rail since 2014.

The NSW Government has frozen fares for Opal card customers until July 2017 and has not made a final decision about the future of Opal fares.

Question asked on 7 March 2017 (session 56-1) and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 93
Answer received on 12 April 2017 and published in Questions & Answers Paper No. 102

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